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Our MS Series comes now with exciting new part-handling features

Our flexible, pneumatically operated MS series stands out due to its versatile range of operation and its user-friendly handling. We have now expanded all MS printers to include a very interesting part-handling system, which allow for even more...

Safety Cell with Rotary Indexing Table

Safety at the workspace should be your priority. We recommend the use of safety cells not only for large pad printing machines but also for smaller units. As part of our range of products we offer standardizes safety cells with numerous quality...

Smart with Rotary Device

The pad printing machine Smart is now also available with a pneumatic rotary device for printing. When used together with a three-ink device, the Smart can now, for example, print articles with one color on one side and two color on the other – all...

Welcome to microPrint

We, microPrint LC GmbH, develop and produce machines and facilities that allows our customers to pad print their products. You will find a overview of our pad printing machines in our catalog .

What is pad printing?

Pad printing is a method that allows the printing of nearly all body shapes and materials, on almost any type of surface structure. The print images are minute recesses on a plate that is also called a “cliché”. During printing, ink is applied to the cliché where it flows into the recesses of the print image. An either ring-formed or straight edge, the “doctor blade”, removes all excessive ink. Only the ink in the recesses remains. The next step involves silicone pads after which this method received its name. The pad takes up the ink from the recesses and is then moved to the item that is to be printed. Here the pad transfers the ink to the object. Pad printing has the great advantage that the pad can be deformed during print transfer. Thereby also uneven objects can be printed. Further information can be found in our pad printing book.